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Last Australians leave Syria camp holding extremist relatives: Officials
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Last Australians leave Syria camp holding extremist relatives: Officials

The last Australian women and children held in a northeast Syria camp housing relatives of suspected foreign extremists left the site this week seeking to return home, a camp official told AFP on Saturday.“Twenty-one Australians left Roj camp” on Thursday – seven women and 14 children, aged eight to 14 -- the Kurdish administrative official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Syrian Kurdish forces control the Roj camp, where relatives of suspected foreign extremists including Westerners have been held for years.“They were handed over to the Syrian government and transferred to the Syrian capital with the aim of sending them to Australia,” the official said, adding: “There are no more Australians remaining in Roj.”Earlier this month, 13 more Australians – four women and their nine children – flew home from Syria.Two of the women, a mother and a daughter, were arrested on arrival, with police accusing

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